Senior Platform Engineer — AWS Infra & Reliability Leader

inKind; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 190,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO policy

Health & dental insurance

Parental leave & child care

Job summary

inKind seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to own and evolve our AWS cloud infrastructure for a growing financial and hospitality tech platform. You will design, implement, and operate the AWS stack, ensuring security, reliability, observability, and scalable performance.

The role combines hands‑on engineering with technical leadership, guiding migrations, deployments, and platform standards while collaborating with application engineers to keep the infrastructure simple, robust, and auditable.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure in cloud environments.
• Deep experience with AWS core services (EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, ElastiCache, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch).
• Strong understanding of containerized workloads and orchestration tradeoffs.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent).
• Demonstrated ability to plan and execute infrastructure migrations safely.
• Experience debugging production incidents involving networking, scaling, or service degradation.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve AWS infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and managed services.
• Design and maintain infrastructure for high availability, predictable performance, and financial correctness.
• Lead platform-level architectural decisions including service migrations and runtime changes.
• Design and maintain deployment pipelines that are safe, repeatable, and observable.
• Own system reliability through capacity planning, failure modeling, and change management.
• Lead incident response and root‑cause analysis for infra‑level failures.
• Participate in on‑call rotations and improve operational ergonomics.
• Build and maintain strong observability and secure configurations across resources.

Skills

AWS expertise

Infrastructure as code

Observability

Incident response

Security best practices

Leadership & mentoring

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS Console

EKS

EC2

Job description

inKind seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to own and evolve our AWS cloud infrastructure for a growing financial and hospitality tech platform. You will design, implement, and operate the AWS stack, ensuring security, reliability, observability, and scalable performance.

The role combines hands‑on engineering with technical leadership, guiding migrations, deployments, and platform standards while collaborating with application engineers to keep the infrastructure simple, robust, and auditable.